Earlier today – with the weather being so lovely – Jessica, Conrad and I were out in the garden. Jessica was moving her toy lions and tiger from one place to another and I’d been carrying Conrad around. Rather than taking him back inside with me whilst I nipped in to get something, I sat him down on the grass in the shade. Conrad seemed happy with just looking around and watching his sister.
As I was about to come back out, I saw that he’d ever-so-slightly moved from where I’d put him and I stopped at the doorway to just observe the two kids. Jessica was quite happily moving the lions and tiger still, but Conrad was purposefully working his way towards the sand table, which was about a metre away. He continued to do this until he was able to reach a muslin that was hanging down from the top of the table. Having pulled it off, it was apparent that he wasn’t after that as he pretty quickly discarded it. He reached up to the edge of the sand table and the fingers of one hand just about touched the lip. He shuffled forward a bit more and reached up again. This time he could almost reach the lip with both hands. A bit more shuffling, then he reached up again. He was able to get enough of a grip to pull and on the second attempt he managed to pull himself upright – the first time he’s ever done this!
Clearly happy with himself, he then worked his way round and round the table.
Gabriella and I are really excited by this development and we’re hoping he does it again very soon.
Ian.